Dymia Woody Murdered By 14-Year-Old Neighbor
July 3, 2008 by Morbid
Greenville, SC - On Monday, 8-year-old Dymia Woody did not return home after dusk like she normally did, so her parents started canvasing the neighborhood looking for her. At 10:30 p.m., they called police. Her body was found Tuesday morning in the closet of an abandoned mobile home that was within site of her home. She had been sexually assaulted and died from asphyxia. Police have now arrested a 14-year-old neighbor and charged him with the death of Dymia
He was one of the last people seen with the girl, and he had already garnered suspicion from investigators as well as Dymia’s mother. On Tuesday, after her daughter was found, she said, “The last time I remember seeing her, like I said, she was playing on the trampoline and then she left with those children and they — like in between two children — and there’s a huge wooded area. I don’t know if she ever made it to a friend’s house. The mother said she didn’t. The son says she did. And he offered to walk her home. So I’m getting two stories, so I don’t know who to believe.”
The Greenville County Coroner’s office said that Dymia was killed sometime Monday between 8:30 p.m. and midnight. The 14-year-old was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct and kidnapping and is currently being held in the juvenile area of the Law Enforcement Center in Greenville.
2:44 pm on July 3rd, 2008
That poor family. You can tell how distraught her mother is by her almost incoherent quote.
I wonder if the 14-year-old had been watching Dymia for some time. I think this story has more behind it than we’re being told. What kind of 14-year-old does this?! What kind of sentence can be given to a minor?
3:03 pm on July 3rd, 2008
Such a pretty princess…..
Re: a 14 year old committing this crime?
We’re just breeding monsters now, it seems.
3:07 pm on July 3rd, 2008
What a beautiful little girl. How tragic for the family. Prayers for all.
3:09 pm on July 3rd, 2008
This entirely too close to home for me. I live in Greenville. She was so beautiful. So beautiful.
3:11 pm on July 3rd, 2008
Apparently, it’s “Young Killer” week here at D’D. Hard to imagine kids this young with such savage tendencies, but it’s certainly nothing new.
Absolutely horrifying for such an adorable little girl. I reckon this 14 year old will be charged as an adult. I hope he gets an exceptionally tough sentence.
3:22 pm on July 3rd, 2008
Time to separate that 14-year old from the population, probably forever. I’m not a supporter of the death penalty in any instance. I am a supporter of separating the monsters from the herd. Some people bitch about spending taxpayer money on incarceration for life, but I personally consider separating monsters (like the one it sounds like this rapist-murderer is) from the herd to be well worth my taxpayer money. Now before someone bitches about my being PC, let me say my views are actually those of someone who doesn’t wish the state to have the legal right to murder its citizens. We all become safer and well-armed militias and all that become less urgently needed if the state doesn’t have that right, in my opinion.
3:46 pm on July 3rd, 2008
I don’t take issue with the death penalty from a moral or philosophical standpoint. There are plenty of very tangible reasons for disapproving of capital punishment. Highest among them is the potential for inaccuracy. There should be no allowable tolerance; no collateral damage when it comes to the lives of wrongfully accused citizens. Secondly, the level of scrutiny applied, although still not enough, is quite expensive. Capital cases are far more expensive, trial through execution, than non-capital cases, trial through end of incarceration. Many people mistakenly believe it is a matter of appeal and that we can simply streamline the system by limiting those. As it turns out, it’s far more complicated than that.
Life terms in prison labor programs. If cost is what concerns people about decades of incarceration, let the criminals pay their way through labor.
I hope this kid gets life, but somehow, I doubt it.
4:11 pm on July 3rd, 2008
Kids killing babies. So heartbreaking. She WAS so beautiful…
4:21 pm on July 3rd, 2008
Couldn’t agree more.
I honestly don’t know where I stand on capital punishment. I can see legitimate points from both sides. My American Government teacher said something the other day that really effected me and I think it applies here. “Better to let ten guilty men go free than wrongfully punish one.”
So very sad to see kids of this age doing something so heinous. I’m absolutely terrified to bring a child into this world. I already have a hard time sleeping at night. I can’t imagine if I had to worry about looking out for such a beautiful young innocent like Dymia. RIP precious little girl.
4:51 pm on July 3rd, 2008
Concerned Citizen –
You need not live in fear. Despite what the media focuses on, the world we live in today is safer and more objectively moral than it ever was. Victimization rates are lower now for all age groups than they were in 1973, when the data began to get recorded. Aside from that, thanks to technology, a child is increasingly less likely to die of illness.
I’m a young person with no children, as well, and have struggled with the same concerns. But, upon looking into it, I found that our kids actually have better odds of making it to adulthood than we did.
4:57 pm on July 3rd, 2008
Teen boy kills young neighbor girl? Sounds like Timothy Buss:
Buss was convicted in the August 1995 murder of 10-year-old Christopher Meyer of Kankakee County. When Buss killed the boy, he was on parole after serving 12 years of a 25-year sentence for the 1981 murder of a 5-year-old girl from Bradley
I don’t care how old the kid is — if he did this, lock him up forever. He will kill again.
5:09 pm on July 3rd, 2008
Amazing. 12 years for the murder of a 5 year old…But pot growers will spend twice that, sometimes.
Our court system needs its priorities reassessed. Prison is for violent offenders and thieves. Let the victimless ones go so that we’re not forced to make room for them by putting the populace at risk with killers.
5:38 pm on July 3rd, 2008
I’m tired of the idea that because an ass is young he deserves some kind of special treatment. ChokyBoy wouldn’t want to be killed himself and that should have been enough guideline to figure out that killing someone else is wrong.
10:08 pm on July 3rd, 2008
It does not matter how many times I hear this kind of story, I am always so horrified. A child raping and killing another child…(practically a baby), it is just beyond me. As a mother I don’t think I could handle something like this happening to my child. So sad.
Rest in peace little Dymia.
10:09 pm on July 3rd, 2008
Ugh. If it’s not babies having babies, it’s babies killing babies. What in the hell….?
8:53 am on July 4th, 2008
She was SO cute.
I wonder why no one checked the abandoned mobile home earlier, if it was within sight? Esp if the door was open?
Anyone else find that a bit odd?
I just think, if my kid was missing & there was a place like that within sight of my home… I’d be tearing the place up looking.
14 years old. I just don’t get how a 14 yr old gets into their head to kill. If you’re caught, the “best years of your life” are done. Never mind the victims’!
That poor baby. She was probably crying for her mama and wondering why no one was helping her. Sick.
9:58 am on July 4th, 2008
When I was younger I wanted to be an executioner. (I was an angry kid for some reason) Now that I’m older, I don’t think I’m really down with the death penalty anymore. I used to be totally for it, you know, eye for an eye kind of thing. I can see the pros and cons of life in prison and a death sentence but, I’m not so sure where I stand anymore.
I hope this 14 year old doesn’t ever get the opportunity to get out. He should be a lifer. I totally agree with Vinron, he will kill again if he gets the chance.
10:00 am on July 4th, 2008
Have times changed that much? I thought we all at 14, as boys, went through the same right of passage. Chronic masturbation. There was nothing wrong with it, plus it gives you a pretty good imagination.
10:26 am on July 4th, 2008
I went to school with Tara’s older sister. Very sad case. I lived 2 blocks from where she was found.
12:48 pm on July 4th, 2008
Since I’m from Greenville, I’ve been closely following this story. I knew that something was suspicious with the boy who killed her, because a local news station interviewed him the night before DNA evidence determined that he was the killer. You could tell by the way he was answering questions and even the way that the boy’s eyes were roaming about, that he knew more than he was letting on. The really bad part? The killer was Dymia’s brother’s best friend, and was ALWAYS at that house, according to an interview with the mother. Watching the parents on the news, mourning the loss of their child in such a terrible way, to a young boy whom they trusted in their home. My heart goes out to this family.
1:38 pm on July 4th, 2008
Nursing a viper in their bosom. What is a person to do in this world? Who would ever think that their son’s best friend was scheming to kill their daughter?
3:39 pm on July 4th, 2008
Not to mention raping her as well. He was caught because of DNA found on her body. I’m the mom of a 7 year old, and I can’t even begin to imagine. It’s a sad day when we have to start reevaluating not only our own friends, neighbors, etc., but our children’s as well.
6:25 pm on July 4th, 2008
Yes, that is one reason that makes me kind of wish the DP didn’t exist. Because you’re right, it does cost a hell of a lot more money. And of course the fact that there is always the chance of executing an innocent person. Did you guys see that movie with Kevin Spacey where him and a friend who were against the DP faked her murder (she actually killed her self, she had cancer anyway and was going to die) and framed him so that he would get the death penalty, and then they could prove that innocent people can get executed by the state? I know it was a little outrageous, but it was a good movie. But like I said in another forum, the other day Mark Dean Shwab was executed, it felt so right and I was so happy for it. It’s guys like that in particular (child rapist/murderers) that make me want to keep it around.
6:29 pm on July 4th, 2008
Amen! Damn, why can’t people see this, I wish this were the case
6:33 pm on July 4th, 2008
MrsNikkisep, would you let me know where i can find the interview? I would really like to see it….
6:49 pm on July 4th, 2008
Nevermind, I found the video. That kid is a psychopath. “I’m the safety-guy around here, I walk all the kids home. I have younger sisters and that’s what I would want someone to do to them”. You’re right that in retrospect, he kept playing with his face and looking at his hands, it did look as he had something to hide. You could have probably just assumed he was nervous about what happened, but knowing now that he did it makes the reason for the nervousness more obvious. It’s kind of funny how when he was saying the quote above, they zoomed in to a shot of his little sister, and she was shaking her head back and forth, almost as if to say “no, that’s a lie”. Makes you wonder if he’s been molesting and abusing them as well.
Here is the video:
http://www.foxcarolina.com/video/16769626/index.html
1:26 pm on July 5th, 2008
Ahhh fuck this is soooooooo sad. I read this story and immediately got cold chills. 8 yrs old. Dammit. The world is a cruel fucking place sometimes. My heart goes out to her and her family.
The 14 yr old boy who did this…..yeah, if he’s having this kind of behavior now, he’s got some severe issues…..Dayum.
12:36 pm on July 8th, 2008
http://www.wyff4.com/video/5552967/index.html?treets=gs&tml=gs_12pm&ts=T&tmi=gs_12pm_1_11000707082008
10:57 am on July 13th, 2008
Thanks for posting those vids, Solange and Funkmama.
3:18 am on August 6th, 2008
related crime, sentenced to 60 yrs…
http://www.dreamindemon.com/2007/11/19/sherman-burnett-jr-15-gets-60-years/
seems odd – straight face… that when interviewed and knowing damn well what happen they can act so not involved…
5:00 am on September 19th, 2008
Poor baby my heart just ache’s more I read these stories…But then I remember these are real life….When my dad was killed, and my cousin who was a Vet. in his home town was killed. I’ve buck up our kids are safe no where. But gosh 14 & 8…No words……….
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